Mainstream Quotes
422 quotes by 379 authors
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For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized…
— Jose Antonio Vargas
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Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in…
— Hooman Majd
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My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced…
— Judd Apatow
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I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
— Jodie Foster
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I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry at the Bush administration; I'm angry at the right…
— Al Franken
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It's…
— Al Franken
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A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science…
— Neil Gaiman
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I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of…
— Neil Gaiman
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A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream…
— William Gibson
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I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream Hollywood terms.
— Steve Coogan
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Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
— Billy Corgan
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Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
— Billy Corgan
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I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
— Willem Dafoe
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
— Larry David
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I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider.…
— Zooey Deschanel
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Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of…
— Bob Dylan
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Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.
— Roger Ebert
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If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed…
— Roger Ebert
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's…
— Nathan Fillion
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I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole…
— Kathleen Hanna
Who Wrote These Mainstream Quotes
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